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MICHAEL GALLAGHER, OF NENV YORK, N. Y.

FIRE-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 319,221, dated June 2,1885.

Application filed February 16, 1885.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, MICHAEL GALLAGHER, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have inventednew and useful Improvements in Fire-Boards, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention consists in a fireboard composed of a top section, sidesections, corner sections, a center piece, suitably beaded together,guides secured to the side sections, guide-bars which engage saidguides, a guide secured to the top section, and a guide-bar secured tothe center piece, and engaging the said guide, and also in thecombination, with afire-board having an opening, attached guides, andperforated lateral-projections, of a slide having an opening and a bead,and a pin passing through the projections and the bead for supportingthe slide; and, furthermore, it consists in the combination, with a topsection, side sections, corner sections, and the center piece, suitablybeaded together, of guides secured to the side sections, guide-barswhich engage said guides, a guide secured to the top sections, aguidebar secured to the center piece and engaging said guide, anaperture formed in the fireboard, an adjustable slide which covers theaperture, and an opening formed therein for receiving the stove-pipe.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a front view of myimproved fireboard. Fig. 2 is a back view of the same. Fig. 3 is alongitudinal section in the plane as m, Fig. l.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, the letter A designates the top section of thefire-board. B and O are the side sections. D and E are the cornersections, and F is the center piece.

In the manufacture of the fire-boards the sides of the center piece, F,are bent backward to form fiat beads a b, and corresponding fiat beadsare formed on the sides 0 d of the top section, which fit over and canslide on the beads a b in the direction of their length.

On the lower edge of the center piece is formed a bead, 6, over whichfit beads f formed on the lower edges of the side sections, B C, and onthe outer side edges of the side sections are formed fiat beads h t,which on (No model.)

gage with corresponding beads j 75, formed on the corner sections, D E,and on the top edges of said corner sections are beads Zm, which engagea corresponding bead, a, on the top edge of the top section, A.

In order to hold the fire-board together and keep it stiff, guides 0 pand 0 1), Figs. 2 and 3, are secured opposite to each other on the backof the side sections, B O, and said guides are engaged by the guide-barsG H, which are provided with suitable projections or stops, q, in orderto limit the motion of the sections.

To limit and guide the motion of the top section, A, a guideway, 1-, isformed on said section, which is engaged by a guide-bar, I, secured tothe center piece F. WVhen the sections are beaded together, asdescribed, the top piece, A, slides over the front of the center piece,the side sections, B C, slide over the back of the center piece, and thecorner sections, D E, slide back of the top section, A, and over thefront of the side sections. It is also evident that the corner sections,D E, can be moved outward and inward with either the side sections orthe top section.

In the center piece, F, is formed an aperture, M, and covering saidaperture is a slide, N, which fits in guide-bars t t, secured to thefront of the center piece, F, and it is provided with an opening, s, forthe introduction of the stove-pipe.

Integral with the guide-bars it, or sepa rately secured to the centerpiece, are projections it a, which are provided with a series of holes,'0, and by passing a pin, w, through said holes and a bead, m, formed onthe top of the slide N, the slide can be retained in any desiredposition. The slide N, as described, can also be used with an ordinaryfire-board.

The advantages of my fire-board are that it can be easily adj ust-ed toany fire-place, and by simply changing the slide it can be used for anysize of stove-pipe, thereby rendering cutting of the center pieceunnecessary, and the height of opening for the entrance of the stovepipecan be adjusted to suit.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-= 1. Anadjustable fire-board consisting of the top section, A, the sidesections, B G, the corner sections, D E,.the center piece, F, suitablybeaded together, guides secured to the side an opening, M, attachedguides t t, and perforated lateral projections to u, a slide, N, in

the guides, having an opening, S, and a bead, m, and a pin, n, passingthrough the projections, and the bead for supporting the slide,substantially as described.

. 3. The combination, substantially as hereinbefore described, with thetop section, A, the side sections, B O, the corner sections, D E, andthe center piece, F, suitably beaded together, of guides secured to theside sections,

the guide-bars which engage said guides, the guides secured to the topsection, the guidebar secured to the center piece-and engaging saidguide, an aperture, M, formed in the fireboard, the adjustable slide Nwhich covers the aperture, and the opening 8, formed therein for thereception of the stove-pipe.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

his I MICHAEL GALLAGHER. [L s] mark.

Witnesses:

W. HAUFF, A. FABER DU FAUR, J r.

